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Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
2mo ago
I Was Building a Cloud Video Service. YouTube Turned Me Into an IP Trafficker.
I tested 7 ways to download YouTube videos from a server. All failed except buying residential proxies. Here's the cost analysis.
Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
2mo ago
6 Ways to Get YouTube Cookies for yt-dlp in 2026 — Only 1 Works
I tried DPAPI, CDP, rookiepy, OAuth2, and Bearer tokens to extract Chrome cookies. All failed. Firefox solved it in 10 lines of Python.
Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
3mo ago
7 Failed Attempts to Create One Cloud Server on Alibaba Cloud
I needed a VPS for my video merging backend. Alibaba Cloud made me try 7 different instance/zone/disk combinations before one finally worked.
Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
3mo ago
3 Deployment Fails That Made Me Quit Oracle Cloud Forever
I tried to deploy a Telegram bot to Oracle Cloud Free Tier. After 2 hours of UI bugs, capacity errors, and a card-locked account — I switched to Fly.io.
Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
3mo ago
I Tried to Merge 52 Video Files Automatically. Here Are 3 Bugs That Almost Killed the Project
How a personal pain of merging hours of strategy session recordings turned into a self-hosted video merging service — and 3 production bugs I didn't see coming.
Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
3mo ago
Why the Boston Metro Map Designer Built Me a Calendar
A 14-year journey from hand-printed calendars to a zero-dependency SVG generator — with plotter printing, Miro integration, and a PDF bug that looked correct on
Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
3mo ago
I Built a Life Timeline Tool That Coaches Say You Shouldn't Use
A zero-dependency browser tool that turns your entire life into a printable Gantt chart — born from real strategic sessions, not a tutorial.
Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
3mo ago
I Built a Telegram Bot That Solves the "What Time Is It For You?" Problem
A serverless Telegram bot that converts one message into a timezone-aware meeting card with Google Calendar link and personal DM reminders.
Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky
3mo ago
I Tried to Build a One-Click Deployer — Here's What Actually Happened
I built a landing page promising "Deploy to anywhere as easily as Vercel." Then I actually tried to deploy something. The gap between the promise and reality wa
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